What about noseguard helmets ?

[funky_kiwi]

Hi everyone, as I've written in a much older thread, it makes me upset that there are no noseguard-helmeted european knights in the whole game.
Hence I've been trying to create noseguard-helmeted templars using Grumpyoldman's converter.

Here's what I've done so far, step by step :

I've change battle-models so the game always uses knights_templar_lod0, so I only have to modify 1 model.

Then I've converted knights_templar_lod0 into MS3D, deleted every helmet so that only the mailed head part of the "open-face-helmet" (which is commented as a "head") group remains. Then I converted that back in MESH to check if it worked in game, and it DID.

Here comes the tricky part though. I copied the druzhina_ug1_lod0 model, then deleted everything (including all bones/joints) but the "russian_helmet" groups. Then I used GOM's converter's merge option to merge these groups (which are commented as "helmets) with my helmetless templar model (which was working in game).

Then in the newly created model, I assign all the "russian_helmet" groups to the templar model's "head" bone. This way, every verticle is logically assigned to it's appropriate bone. Finally, I converted this new model into MESH, thx to GOM's converter again.

Yet in game, I get the "stiffman" thing, as if my bone assignments were wrong, while I am sure they are right since all that had to be done was to assign the russian_helmet groups to the head bone.

Does anybody know what's wrong ?

I know this thread is quite long & boring, but if the answer to my problem is short & simple, please tell me, I would be very thankful (& add you reputaion :-D ).
If I'm doing it completely wrong, and the answer would be too long & boring to write, then please just tell me it's all wrong, but I just want to know how far I am from doing it right.

Thank you by advance, funky_kiwi

[Sher Khan]

Did you really have to delete then reassign all the bones?

Because when I do it, I just delete the relevant groups, use GOM's merge function, then immediately convert back into a new mesh.

It works fine like that in my case.

[funky_kiwi]

No, I don't really know why, but that doesn't work with templars ( works with mailed knights though), anyways, I found a way to do my stuff with templars, it's long but it works :-D. I'll share it with u guys in a few days, if I get some free time. Thx 4 the reply though ^^